Human Rights Watch reports on gays being murdered by militias in Iraq

We've written about this issue before, but this news comes via Human Rights Watch. It's very disturbing. The U.S. "liberated" Iraq. Now that "liberated" Iraq is killing gays en masse. That didn't happen during the days of Saddam:

Gay Iraqi men are being murdered in what appears to be a co-ordinated campaign involving militia forces, the group Human Rights Watch says.

It says hundreds of gay men have been targeted and killed in Iraq since 2004.

So-called honour killings also account for deaths where families punish their own kin in order to avoid public shame.

The report says members of the Mehdi Army militia group are spearheading the campaign, but police are also accused - even though homosexuality is legal.

Witnesses say vigilante groups break into homes and pick people up in the street, interrogating them to extract the names of other potential victims, before murdering them.

We really need the U.S. government, starting with the State Department, to weigh in here.